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Tuesday, 31 March 2015

JS Bin is a free website for learning and experimenting with web languages, in particular HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It is ultimately a code sharing site, so everything you do is public. As you type into one of the editor "panels", you and anyone watching your bin will see the output being generated in real-time in the output panel. A Pro version cost £60 a year for private bins, Dropbox backup and custom URLs. See: http://jsbin.com

Tuesday, 17 March 2015

The Microsoft Azure FREE website tier allows you to host up to 10 unique websites with a combined total of 1GB of disk space and a maximum daily bandwidth of 165MB a day. Supports a wide variety of content management systems including Apache, Drupal, HTML5, Joomla, Magento, Node JS, PHP / MySQL, Umbraco, Wordpress and many more. Great for testing and learning.
See: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/websites/

Monday, 9 March 2015

The new Apple MacBook Pro Retina laptops are brilliant, in the same way that a Mercedes car is, compared to a Ford. The range is tweaked and improved slightly every year, so use this regularly updated comparison chart to compare the whole Apple laptop range to help you decide: MacBook Pro Comparison(updated March 2015)

Tuesday, 3 March 2015

The Corona SDK is a 2D development platform with built-in physics, for building apps and games. It has over 1000 API libraries where most of the complicated programming has been done for you. If you are looking to get into games development, this is a good place to start. It used to cost $588 a year for the Pro version, but is now FREE. There are still small business and enterprise versions which are chargeable. Supports iOS, Android, Kindle & Windows Phone 8, see: http://coronalabs.com/